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Publication details [#12867]

Leinonen, Eeva, Carolyn Letts and Benita Rae Smith. 2000. Children's Pragmatic Communication Difficulties. Whurr Publishers. viii + 213 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
child language | communicative failure | discourse analysis | meaning | pragmatic function | reference | relevance | storytelling
ISBN
1-86156-0400

Annotation

An examination of pragmatic impairment in child language and the theoretical accounts pragmatics offers for such communication difficulties. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of pragmatic (dys)functioning, illustrated by clinical and developmental data, as well as exercises.